You’ll be surprised to learn that despite your dog’s eagerness to eat just about anything in sight, his sense of taste is not as excellent as you might believe. Yes, Scruffy may drool buckets of saliva at the sight of baloney, but his overall taste is relatively poor. While he’s capable of detecting bitter, sweet, salty and sour tastes, you’ll be surprised to learn that he has only one-sixth the number of taste buds a human has. Source: Adrienne Farricelli, Demand Media